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It aims to protect the public by making McGrane tell police of any changes to his name or address, places where he regularly stays, or plans to travel abroad.

But the murderer appealed against the order at Liverpool Crown Court, disputing he had intended to molest his drugged victims and claiming Australian authorities faked documents.

Judge David Aubrey, QC, said: “The appellant accepts the convictions but denies that in respect of the “stupefying” offences the intention had been to indecently assault his patients and does not accept he was so convicted.

“He further submits that some of the court records and documents produced by the Australian authorities are either incomplete or have been falsified.

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“We reject the appellant’s argument that any such documents have been falsified. We find as a fact and are satisfied that they have not been.”

McGrane was jailed for eight years for the stupefying offences and 18 months for the indecent assaults, concurrent to his life sentence.

Judge Aubrey today said: “The court is satisfied that the appellant was so convicted and sentenced.

“This court is not concerned with the veracity of any allegation but the fact of the convictions.”

The former doctor, who represented himself in court, also argued his convictions were not relevant qualifying offences for the order.

The court heard the indecent assaults did not qualify because the sentence was less than 30 months, meaning his case hinged on the stupefying charges.

Michael McGrane was jailed for life over the killing of Yuen Ling Chan after she accused him of misconduct in Australia.

Judge Aubrey had to determine whether stupefying – an offence that does not exist in the UK – could “properly be construed and found to be an attempted indecent assault in accordance with English law”.

He said: “The same in turn requires the court to be satisfied that the act of administering diazepam with intent to commit an indecent assault is more than a mere preparatory act. That is a question of fact and the court so finds.”

Dismissing McGrane’s appeal, the judge told the killer he would have to pay £2,000 court costs.

McGrane studied at Manchester University before moving to the Middle East with his wife, Catherine, and settling in Australia in the late 1980s.

The couple had a baby in 1999, six weeks after he was charged with the murder of the accountancy student from Hong Kong.